The
Paul and Dee-Dee Slade Young Investigator (YI) Award is to recognize
outstanding achievement of young investigators in the field of Electrical
Contacts and to encourage young scientists and engineers to enter this
field.To be eligible for the Award,
the candidate must: (1) Be under the age of 35 as of the closing date of the
conference; (2) Present a paper and poster at the conference in which he or
she is either the sole author or the first author of a multi-author paper
with no more than three authors total.